Renovating your home is an undertaking that raises, within itself, a lot of questions. Whether you are a first-time buyer or on your new home, the options made available to you by this new blank canvas are innumerable.
Many settle for decorating their home piecemeal, allowing it to settle into its own identity and compromising along the way. But what if you want your home to truly reflect the contemporary? What are some considerations you might make in a wholesale overhaul of your home to bring it into the present day – or beyond?
Designing Multifunctional Spaces
Open-plan living is by no means a new concept – indeed, it has been in and out of a fashion a number of times in the past few generations. Whatever its status in interior design trends might be at present, open-plan living presents a unique modern advantage over conventional living spaces – multifunctional living.
Spaces that fulfil multiple purposes enable a number of things to happen. For one, practical concerns are consolidated, freeing up space and reducing any sense of clutter. For another, multifunctional living makes entertaining much easier, whether family or friends.
Sustainable Living and Energy Efficiency
Modern living has its technological and aesthetic considerations, which we will be exploring shortly, but there is a much more important consideration that contemporary renovations must necessarily encounter: sustainability. The certainty of the climate crisis has spurred dramatic shifts in construction and renovation processes, while dramatic increases in cost related to heating domestic homes has spurred incentive to action in many homeowners.
There are many ways in which these considerations and challenges can be met in the context of a modern home renovation. For a start, new iterations of essential and functional designs provide modern convenience and improved efficiency in one; for example, power showers are a relative luxury to many, and today much more energy- and water-efficient than many alternatives.
Smart Homes and Technological Installations
It is impossible to talk about modern homes without acknowledging the exponential growth in presence of ‘smart’ appliances and home systems. From smart heating systems that can be controlled by app to smart lighting, smart kitchens and even smart taps, the technological has infiltrated every part of our domestic bliss.
In creating a truly modern home, your designs might not only accommodate these pieces of technology, but also reflect them; sheer surfaces, touch-entry for doors and windows, tactile interactions – all can bring a home in harmony with its technology.
Aesthetic Decisions
Of course, there are modern aesthetic trends that exist beyond the paradigms set by technology and appliances. Indeed, some of the most radical contemporary design concepts are in opposition to the sleekness of proposed tech-futures.
Biophilic design seeks to bring the outside in, incorporating natural colours and textures to create a seamless and comfortable environment that reflects the calm of the unspoiled world. This form of aesthetic decision-making is also timely, where sustainability again forms a major part of the public conscience.
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